I Can’t Believe It’s Not 80s: A Paper Run Playlist

Nicholas Roberts
5 min readNov 25, 2021

You’re at home, you’re going to watch Gremlins on VHS. You’re munching your Pop Secret Popcorn, and between trailers for Back to the Future and The Goonies you have a song stuck in your head. It’s not one of these songs, but it kind of sounds like one of them.

For this week’s paper run I’m listening to songs which could be, in passing at least, mistaken for the second song of a one hit wonder band, or the B-Side of a Chart Topper from the 80s. It was a time of many genres, and this Paper Run Playlist is going to reflect that!

In Paper Run Playlists I’ll share the thematic playlist which I’ve been listening to on my drive while delivering papers in the Falklands this week, highlighting a few of the songs in the playlist I

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Nicholas Roberts
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A Journalist living in the Falklands, writing observations and opinions from 52°South. Musician, tabletop games nerd and gamer. | Website: nicholasroberts.org